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By J.T. Lambrou, July 26, 2021
Fuller Grist Mill / Woolen Mill Marker
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1 ► Michigan, Oakland County, Milford — Fuller Grist Mill / Woolen Mill —
On Peters Road at West Huron Street, on the right when traveling south on Peters Road.
NW of here Luman Fuller built Milford's first grist mill in 1834. Shortly after a woolen mill was added north of the grist mill. Peters' Mill as it came to be known, housed Milford's first electric dynamo in 1892. Both mills were razed in . . . — — Map (db m178323) HM
2 ► Michigan, Oakland County, Milford — Pettibone Grist Mill 1846 — Hebbard & Davis Woolen Mill 1850 Tower & Tenny Woodworking Mill 1854 Henry Ford I Mill 1938 —
On North Milford Road north of Detroit Street, on the left when traveling north.
The upper mill pond was created in 1846 by damming Pettibone Creek. A mill race entered the pond beneath the road and powered the woolen and woodworking mills. The race for the grist mill left the pond near the dam at the south end of the pond. . . . — — Map (db m125366) HM
3 ► Michigan, Oakland County, Milford — Phelps Saw Mill and Distillery —
On West Liberty Street 0.1 miles east of Cabinet Street, on the right when traveling east.
Circa 1836, Aaron Phelps, Milford’s first postmaster and the man who platted north Milford, built a saw mill and a distillery here, at the foot of the lower mill pond. The distillery became a carding mill in 1848, but the other mill, used for . . . — — Map (db m79683) HM
4 ► Michigan, Oakland County, Milford — Wells Brothers Foundry —
On South Main Street near Water Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1865 Philip F. and D. Webster Wells moved their foundry, then called the Milford Furnace, from North Main Street to this site after experiencing problems with the water power at the former site (a water power their father had developed). Their . . . — — Map (db m78801) HM
 
 
  
 
 
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